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By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing forward with its plan to stop a new Missouri law that protects unborn babies from abortion after their heartbeats are detectable… On Sunday, the abortion advocacy group held several meetings across the state to drum up support for a petition to repeal the law, ABC News 17 reports. The pro-life law passed the state legislature in May, but abortion activists hope to repeal it through voter referendum in 2020.

By Father Nicholas Blackwell O. Carm., Catholic Stand - The Gospel reading for the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (John 19:25-27) reminds Carmelites where they must stand in order to animate the charism and life of Carmel within them. Mary’s embrace causes Carmelites to recall their origin. The Order’s primary foundation is to be found with Mary at the foot of her Son’s Cross. It is from this spiritual foundation that the Order’s earthly foundation began to take root upon Mount Carmel eleven hundred years after Christ’s crucifixion.

By Joshua Hren, Crisis Magazine - An expert on theological trends in the Amazon, Julio Loredo has demonstrated that the Synod is “nothing else than the culmination of liberation theology.” The Synod’s Instrumentum laboris gives credence to his claim; we read that “a Church called to be even more synodal begins by listening to the peoples and to the earth by coming into contact with the abundant reality of an Amazon full of life and wisdom.” Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger explains that for liberation theologians, the “conciliar emphasis on the people of God is transformed into a Marxist myth.”